The Coaching Leader—Food For Life
At a gathering of local business leaders, I sat next to the recently appointed MD (let’s call him James) of a flourishing medical supplies company. In his first few weeks…
Coaching Begins At Hello
Originally published in Training Journal, 2019. I have observed a great many coaching conversations over the years, and I have been amazed at the phenomena occurring just at the time…
Race Consciousness–a Three Part Series (Part Three)
Originally published in Coaching at Work, 2021 Part three: Inform your perceptions In my previous articles, I talked about how our coaching arrangements, practices, and conversations are inevitably ‘racialized’. Deeply…
Supervisors Attend To Coaches So They Can Attend to Leaders
Originally published in Coaching Perspectives, 2017 The leadership shadow: the vulnerability of being a leader In today’s fast-paced, interconnected, and mercilessly competitive business world, senior executives have to push themselves…
A Fleeting Moment of ‘noticing’ – the Balance of Presence in Team Coaching
Originally published in Coaching Today, 2019 When coaching teams ask, how do we know when our presence is “too much” or “too little”? Erik de Haan proposes how to navigate…
Are You The Coach You Think You Are?
Originally published in Coaching Today, 2018 The latest version of our Coaching Behaviours Questionnaire (CBQ) was used in a large-scale study of coaching behaviours among 537 coaches, 196 consultants,…
What It Takes To Lead In Business
“Leadership”—a word used vastly and repeatedly in business circles all over the world. So much so, that it has different connotations everywhere. Simply put, it’s a skill of influencing people…
We’re Not Very Good at Influencing Others at Work—Here’s What You Can Do
Dr. Amanda Nimon-Peters is Professor of Leadership at Hult International Business School. You can reach out to her via LinkedIn. Dr. Amanda’s book Working with Influence: Nine Principles of Persuasion for…
Sustainable Business Leadership Starts With Education
Sustainability defined: A company’s delivery of long-term value in financial, social, environmental, and ethical terms. – Guide to Sustainable Business, UN Global Compact (2014) Sustainability—once on the fringe…
Race Consciousness–a Three Part Series (Part One)
Originally published in Coaching at Work, 2021 Part one: Race equity and coaching – a call to conscientization? In the first of a series of articles about race equity in…
Race Consciousness–a Three Part Series (Part Two)
Originally published in Coaching at Work, 2021 Part two: Conversations of Difference Three coaches reflect on their experience of creating, facilitating, and holding the space for themselves, for each other as…
New Research: Women Leaders in a Global Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic hit in a global context already characterized by uncertainty, complexity, and unpredictability. Many organizations had no choice but to focus on surviving immediate threats. Yet the need to…
Socially Responsible Business at Hult: An Adventure In Pedagogy
In Summer, 2020, after many years of teaching politics to US undergraduates, I moved to the Boston area and began my first semester at Hult with an intensive six-week undergraduate…
Virtual Skills Lab | The Science of Confidence
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe and…
Customized Skills Credentials: A New Tool for Attracting, Retaining, and Motivating Employees
My conversations with talent and learning leaders are showing a pattern of focusing on three disruptive forces: the skills transformation needed in their workforce; the changing nature of work and…
Improve your executive decision-making with these economics-based strategies
Daniel Deneffe, Professor of Economics and Strategy at Hult and 23-time Professor of the Year across campuses, recently published articles in two of the world’s most respected business magazines: MIT…
From rhetoric to action in DEIB
Johan Roos, Chief Academic Officer at Hult International Business School, was invited to deliver the key note speech at the inaugural conference on “DEIB in the Business Curriculum” by the…
Effective communication makes the difference between success and failure
The secret to success (and, the path to failure) is never that black and white. However, there is one critical leadership skill that can make the difference of whether a…
Soft skills: What they are and why they matter
Ready for some whopping news? A total of 93% of employers say the ability to demonstrate soft skills is more important than a major. Ninety-three percent, no less! So right…
Creative thinking: What it is and how do you build this leadership skill?
Like most leadership skills, creative thinking is invaluable. And that’s whether you’re yet to reach the career market or have years of experience under your belt. You can always improve…
Constructive feedback: What it is and how to master it
You’re likely to be familiar with the term ‘constructive feedback’, but what does it really mean? How do you do it? And why does it matter? These are all great…
Critical Thinking: What it is and how to master it
What exactly is critical thinking? It’s a very business-speak title, so you’re forgiven for not knowing. Critical thinking is a group of soft skills which you use every day. These…
The necessity of sustainable practices in business
A little over a hundred years ago, there was a definite careless attitude towards industrial activities and the impact they had on the environment. Whether it was factories belching smoke…
Impacting the environment for the better: A bottom-up approach
Imagine the following scenario: You’re just about to cross the street when a car comes around the corner and is about to hit you. Most people would instinctively save themselves,…
Virtual Skills Lab | Are you worth more than AI?
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe and…
Everything You Need to Know About Clubhouse
What is it, why should you care, and how to get started? What is Clubhouse? The new kid on the social media block is Clubhouse: an interactive social networking app…
Virtual Skills Lab | Physically Distant, but Socially Connected
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe and…
Virtual Skills Lab | Cultivating Grit during Challenging Times
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe and…
Mind the gap! Fintech vs. the desired skillset of employees in finance & accounting
Is the technology going to steal all our jobs? Not any time soon, but … the change is happening … and money is flowing to fintech: the global fintech market…
Virtual Skills Lab | Designing the post-corona supply chain
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe and…